Thursday, July 7, 2011

Well, the anti-smoking lobby will say, because it is bad for your health. But why should a culture of health trump one of pleasure or at least comfort? And why, if health is really the issue, should alternative forms of nicotine ingestion, such as vaping, be banned? Unless, of course, health is not really what is at issue at all, and smokers have become an acceptable scapegoat for the moralistic impulses of all societies and the death-denial peculiar to our own.

This is a bloody brilliant commentary from a man who tells is like it IS. Please do read the whole article.

The Epidemiological Evidence for Less Hazardous Cigarettes

"The justification for less hazardous or virtually safe cigarettes derives directly from epidemiologic studies. All studies that have linked cigarette smoking with various diseases have also noted that the risks increase with the number of cigarettes smoked daily, with the intensity of inhalation, with how much of a cigarette is smoked, whether the cigarette is filtered or not, and with other features that define the amount, i.e. the DOSE, of smoke inhaled" Dr. Gori-Virtually Safe Cigarettes